Hengshui Middle School Schedule For 2026 Exposed! Arrange School Time Down To The Minute

Get up at five fifty. Or sooner.

In the early morning of Hengshui Middle School, it was still dark and the lights in the dormitory building were already on. That kind of light is not a lazy, gradual one, but a light that is instantly activated by a unified current and without hesitation. Next comes trotting, which is said to be called "Hengshui Step". It is neither running nor walking. It is the most efficient way of displacement between the two.

I was not convinced at the time, and then a video came into view. There were thousands of people in the video. They made no sound, just like a silent river, flowing towards the playground.

Some people say it is a machine. The person who said this has probably never seen a machine break down.

Let me tell you a joke. I saw it on the Internet. When it comes to the students of Hengshui Middle School, points will be deducted even for being in a daze. I couldn't help but think that if being in a daze was considered a crime, I would probably be sentenced to life imprisonment in my lifetime. When I was in a daze, everything seemed to exist in my mind, but it seemed like nothing existed. An old fan that seems to be running but has become rusty. That kind of moment is when I feel like I'm still alive in this world.

But they can't. Their time was precisely cut with a scalpel——

I get up at 5:30, start running exercises at 5:45, and do morning reading at 6:00. After that, every class, every break, every "zero head-up" self-study, the lights are not turned off until 10:10 in the evening. A day is divided into countless grids with minutes as units. You have to put yourself in it, strictly and strictly. It's like a part embedded in a huge and roaring machine.

I don't mean to be sarcastic. real.

Is it a myth, or is it the 2.41-meter-tall test paper?

In 2019, 275 students from this school were successfully admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, accounting for 98.5% of the total number of students in Hebei Province. Later, a student aired his photos, and the stack of papers he had done in his three years of high school reached a height of 2.41 meters. So what is the concept of 2.41 meters? It is as high as a story. It is the height formed by stacking three of them. It is a tombstone or something that can be called a monument built up with pens and paper.

I have no idea. It depends on what you think.

A person who studied at Hengzhong graduated and is now in Tsinghua University. He said that he was grateful for those three years and for the training that made the most of his time. As a result, he now feels relaxed when facing any pressure in college. I believe this. Human resilience is sometimes really forced out. Just like a piece of iron, it is forged repeatedly and finally becomes steel.

But I also saw another report. In 2025, the number of students admitted to Hengzhong by Qingbei dropped to 45, showing a cliff-like downward trend. Some people said that it was due to policy changes that no longer allowed selective enrollment from across the province. As students returned to the local area, its former myth was shattered.

This is interesting.

Assuming that such a myth is maintained by picking out top students, can it still be called a myth? Is it a business that is actuarial to the core and is about investment? Gathering together the most outstanding young talents in the province, and then applying the strictest management to ensure that they are not "wasted" - is this considered a success in education, or is it considered the ultimate coordination of resources?

I have no way of knowing. However, I know that those children who go to eat at a trot every day, go to bed at a trot, and go to class at a trot, do not have time to think about this problem.

"We guarantee sleep": 7.5 hours of bliss and cruelty

The vice-principal said that we ensure that students have seven and a half hours of sleep every day, and must return to the dormitory at noon for a lunch break. They claim that this is called "efficiency" - resting must be complete and thorough, and studying must be done with all one's strength, as clear as being cut by a knife, and the line between black and white is extremely clear.

Recently, the news once again mentioned that Hengshui Middle School has undergone changes. By 2026, students will wake up at 6:30 in the morning, turn off the lights at 10:30 in the evening, have double breaks, and sleep up to 9 hours a day. The school has opened more than 110 clubs, including dough sculpting classes, robotics classes, and simulated political consultative conferences. There must be laughter, praise, questions, and debates in class, and mechanical answering of questions is opposed.

I'm thinking about whether the place that was denounced as a "college entrance examination factory" in the past is carrying out an act of self-salvation, or is it adapting to the new rules of the game?

Or maybe it's never singular.

About the misinformation about "running to the toilet"

It is always said on the Internet that students in Hengzhong Middle School are only given four minutes to eat and then run to the toilet. Later, someone refuted the rumor and stated that it was false and that the meal took no less than thirty minutes. However, I don’t know why, but I always feel that the scene of “running to the bathroom” is more representative of something than any refutation of rumors.

A repressed, unspeakable, adolescent urgency.

The vice president of Hengzhong Middle School in charge of educational affairs went to Nanjing No. 1 Middle School for exchange activities. During this period, he attended a physics course and recorded it in detail in his notebook. The principal of Nanjing No. 1 Middle School stated that we pay more attention to respecting the differences in students' personalities, rather than pursuing a uniform model. Two different schools, adhering to two different educational philosophies, had a brief interaction with each other during an afternoon lecture session involving class matters.

After meeting, each went his own way.

What on earth do I want to say?

I have no idea.

Regarding Hengshui Middle School, I just feel that we have been arguing for so many years. Those who support it say that it is the only way for children from poor families to rise upwards, while those who oppose it claim that it is the kind of examination device that erases human nature. Both of these different noises were quite loud and extremely noisy.

But what do those kids who actually get up at 5:30 in the morning think?

They probably don't have time to think.

In a youth that is divided into countless grids, they have to do gymnastics, read early, go to class, and make the 2.41-meter-high paper. They need to find a little gap of their own, even if that gap is just enough to secretly relax for a while.

Then points were deducted.

In the blink of an eye, 2026 has arrived, and Hengshui Middle School is showing a trend of change. However, if you look closely, it seems that there has been no change. Policies have changed, data has changed, and the work schedule has also changed. However, has the atmosphere that is always tense, completely driven by efficiency, and not even a second of time allowed to be wasted, really changed?

I have no idea.

All we know is that if education can be regarded as a battle over time, Hengshui Middle School used to be the most vicious general in this battle.

And now, the general is old. Or maybe the general just changed his clothes.

Those kids are still running. Still trotting, going to the place called "the future".